And as we sit here in the first week of the final month of the regular season, there are more than two dozen teams with a path to the 12-team CFP. Some are the teams still in the mix because they're alive in their conference races,

Here's what to expect from the College Football Playoff selection committee's first Top 25 rankings on Tuesday night.

For much of the time after Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois, the Action Network's Brett McMurphy was not empathetic. He consistently had the Irish in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, thus rendering their first season in the expanded College Football Playoff era a failure.